[IRC] Regarding quests, Contests, and Steam Workshop

<Tiy> http://imgur.com/36Gbk  <-- here
<Clockwork> Are the people on the bottom Apex?
<Thieffi> The upper one needs a scythe as a weapon <.<
<Tiy> for those of you who missed it
<Wo> I'm sorry to come off as abrasive
<Wo> Not my intent
<Kuraj_> can someone answer, approx. how many sprites you have to edit in order to implement an armor (with animations)?
<Tiy> Wo, whats up
<tramsan> Nice monkey suits
<Kuraj_> Relax, Wo
<Tiy> Haven't read ^^ on everything, but you're looking for info?
<Tiy> Can I help?
<Clockwork> I love how to robots have like Ninja robes
<Clockwork> *the
<Wo> Oh, I was just wondering about the overall goal of the game
<Wo> I've been following the title for  a long time
<Wo> And about the things players will be able to achieve in a large scale multiplayer setting
<Tiy> Ok well, I'll give you an idea of the plan. Take everything I say with a grain of salt because it's an in development game and anything could change at any time
<Wo> Haha, alright
<Tiy> First there's a main quest, story driven, with missions to complete and an overall goal.
-*- Prismaa throws vanilla cinnamon rolls everywhere
<Tiy> To gain access to each main campaign mission you first have to achieve certain things in the open world/sandbox
<TheLoanArranger> mine 3 million dirt blocks to proceed
<Tiy> those achievements can be made in a multitude of ways, we don't really funnel you through. So you can do quests, you can rob friendly npcs, you can help out friendly npcs, if you're on a pvp server you can rob other players, hold them for ransom, do whatever you want to do really to achieve the goal
<Wo> Ok, thank you
<Kuraj_> TheLoanArranger: then turn in and receive the next part of a quest: mine up another 6 million?
<Tiy> You can fight monsters, find materials, find rare objects, etc etc etc
<Wo> I truly didn't mean to come off as offensive
<Nirilia> Tiy, remember devs needs sleep too!
<Nirilia> And on that note, I'm off to bed, night everyone. :)
<Tiy> On top of all of that there's the building/persistant aspect of the game
<Thieffi> Will the main quest be server based or personal?
<Tiy> building up a homeworld, a village, your home ship and so on
<Clockwork> earlier you talked about a possible beta period with just the sandbox, what would that include?
<Tiy> Thieffi youll probably enter it in an instance, but wit your party
<Tiy> Clockwork everything save the missions
<Tiy> the progression would still be there but youd simply skip the missions
<Clockwork> cool
<Kuraj_> Tiy: can we expect any more contests, like the hat contest, that are rewarded with user content being put into game?
<Tiy> sure you can
<Tiy> once the game is out we'll be doing that a ton
<Kuraj_> smashing
<Clockwork> If it goes on steam will you try to get workshop integration?
<Tiy> Clockwork if it does, yeah
<Tiy> 100%
<Tiy> that would be amazing for the game
<jdmarsh> Tiy, what kind of quests will there be?
<Tiy> procedurally generated quests